Fox News
host Megyn
Kelly and NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre went back and forth in an
at-times tense interview Thursday afternoon, with Kelly asking
LaPierre at one point to directly respond to families of victims
of the elementary-school massacre in Newtown, Conn.

Before introducing LaPierre, Kelly played a clip of some Newtown
families being interviewed by CBS anchor
Scott
Pelley in a clip set to air Sunday on "60 Minutes."

"It's powerful to listen to. Those families directly affected say
if Adam Lanza, the shooter at Newtown, had not had 30-round
magazines — if he had only had 10 rounds — more children would
have lived," Kelly said. "Your thoughts?"

Kelly continued to press LaPierre on the original point, though,
saying it was "compelling" to hear families from Newtown say that
if Lanza had had to reload five times instead of just once, more
children might be alive today.

"My response is that the criminals aren't going to have less,"
LaPierre said. "One round in the hand of someone that's going to
do horror is too many —"

"But how do you know, Wayne?" Kelly said, interjecting. "Adam
Lanza — his mother was a legal gun owner — how do you know that
his mother would not have obeyed the law, limited the magazine
clip, and then Adam Lanza would've been limited to 10 rounds
instead of 30."

LaPierre seemed caught off guard.

"Megyn, people that know guns know you can change magazine clips
in a second," he said, stammering between sentences. "There's no
evidence, you know, that anything would have changed."

He quickly moved onto a different argument, saying he thought gun
owners needed high-capacity magazines for self-defense.